Improvement in fire-extinguishetts



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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

JOHN C. LESTER AND CHARLES J. FOX, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENTAIN FIRE-EXTINGUISHERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 201,183, dated March12, 1878; application filed March 15, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN C. LESTER and CHARLES J. FOX, of the city ofChicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Fire Extinguishers, which improvement isfully set forth in the following specification, reference being bad tothe accompanying drawings, in which A is a section of a railwaypassenger-car; B, a stove in the same; C, the stove-pipe; D, awater-tank; E, a pipe leading from the bottom or near the bottom of thetank D into the stove-pipe C, as shown in Figures 1 and 2; or, ifdesired, the pipe E can open directly into the stove B, as shown in Fig.3. F is a ball resting on a cup or bracket on top of the tank D. H is avalve closing the orifice of the pipe E where it opens out of the tankD. G is a chain attached at one end to the ball F, and at the other endto the valve H.

When the car A is thrown from an upright position, so as to incline thetank D from a vertical line, at an angle of twenty degrees or more, theball F will roll from its bracket in which it rests, and by its weightraise the valve H from the mouth of the pipe E, thus allowing the waterfrom the tank D to pour through the pipe E into the stove B, through thestove-pipe C, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, or directly into the stove Bfrom the pipe E, as shown in Fig. 3, thus extinguishing the fire in thestove B.

Theltank D can be used as a water-cooler in summer, or at any season, ifdesired.

What we claim as new, as our invention, and wish to secure by LettersPatent, is-

.1. The combination of the ball F with the chain G, the valve H, thetank D, the pipe E, and the stove B, as shown and described, and. forthe purpose set forth.

2. The combination of the ball F with the chain G, the valve H, the tankD, pipe E, pipe C, and stove B, as shown and described, and for thepurpose set forth.

' J OHN- C. LESTER. CHARLES J. FOX. Witnesses:

F. J. SEYBoLn, HENRY O. STRONG.

